Ryan Hellyer

Year: 2021

  • Compassion

    It’s always important to have compassion, even for those who appear at odds with your own values. Something led them to where they are in life. Perhaps we would all end up in the same situation if we were in the exact same scenario. – Ryan Hellyer

  • Raspberry and Coke

    I always thought that New Zealands national soft drink was a tie between Coke and Raspberry and L&P. I’ve been sporadically looking for good quality raspberry syrup to add to me Coke since moving to Europe, but always failed until yesterday. But when I proudly posted in the Kiwis in Germany Facebook group that I had found some good quality raspberry syrup to buy in Germany, it turned out that very few people had any idea what I was talking about. My life has been a lie! Apparently Coke and Raspberry is only a thing for a small proportion of Kiwis. My mind has been blown! At any rate, I’m very glad to have found some yummy raspberry syrup to add to my caffeine free Coke (I quit caffeine 170 days ago).

  • Artwork from 1985

  • How to deal with antivaxxers

    The problem is partially that many people are as thick as a post, but we knew that before the pandemic. IMHO, the core problem is that society has created a scenario in which the general public have lost trust in the authorities. I think we should focus on fixing the underlying issue of many political decisions (including those pre-COVID) being made based on political whims rather than what is best for society. Stopping anti-vax propaganda may help the immediate problem, but it’s just a bandaid on a gaping wound. – Ryan Hellyer

  • New life begins

  • Puzzle solved

  • I’m exploding on the inside

  • How my brain feels

  • Purple bats

  • HMX-500

    I think this was my fourth bike after a piece of crap plastic thing, a trike, a stupid bike with trainer wheels on it and then this mighty beast of a machine, the HMX-500. I loved this bike. I got into lots of trouble for not cleaning it, but I was a kid, so why the heck would I clean a bike? I didn’t care what it looked like. I just wanted to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. I never cleaned my cars either 😛 After I upgraded, mine was sold to some kid who had their bike stolen.

    Picture is stolen from somewhere on the internet. I don’t have any pictures of mine unfortunately.